Reverence : renewing a forgotten virtue / / Paul Woodruff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957007403321
• Autore: Woodruff Paul <1943-2023.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-19-773155-4; 1-280-53224-6; 9786610532247; 0-19-803371-0; 0-19-530305-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetti: Honor; Respect
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-243) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Text Credits; 1 Introducing Reverence; 2 Without Reverence; 3 Music and a Funeral: Finding Reverence; 4 Bare Reverence; 5 Ancient Greece: The Way of Being Human; 6 Ancient China: The Way of Power; 7 Reverence Without a Creed; 8 Reverence Across Religions; 9 Relativism; 10 The Reverent Leader; 11 The Silent Teacher; 12 Home; Notes; Works Cited; Index and Glossary of Proper Names
• Sommario/riassunto: Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behaviour and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the fundamental importance of the forgotten virtue of reverence, and how awe for things greater than oneself can - indeed must - be a touchstone for other virtues like respect, humility, and charity. Ranging widely over diverse cultural terrain - from Philip Larkin to ancient Greek poetry, from modern politics to Chinese philosophy - Woodruff shows how absolutely essential reverence is to a well-functioning society.